Women in the porn industry are fighting the forces of sexism, racism and homophobia, one dirty film at a time. In order to better understand the scope of sexual desire, a professor named Meredith Chivers once invited a group of men and women into her lab at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. There, […]
We’re not imagining ourselves in loving relationships, dialogue and all, as we get ourselves off. And we’re definitely not lighting scented candles and applying body lotion to create a sensuous environment. “I think I masturbate more when I’m stressed.” “You masturbate?” This conversation I had with a male friend embodies the surprise a lot of people express when […]
Unfortunately, many of us straight women developed our ideas of “sexiness” based on images of female sexuality distorted to serve men. The first time I got off to a sex scene that didn’t happen to be porn, it left me overcome by your standard feelings of female dirtiness and guilt and weirdness. I was 22, […]
